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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
